One would assume that somewhere the FDA has rules for what foods legally can and cannot say or display on their packaging. In doing so, one would be right because under the consumer's orientated section of their government website, the FDA has an article titled "What's in a Name? What Every Consumer Should Know About Foods and Flavors" that covers the very issue raised by the carrot-less carrot cakes Hostess makes.
Products, they explain, can have the name of a food, "food-flavored," or an admission of "artificially food-flavored" on the box without containing the real food in question. It merely needs the flavor. To determine whether the food ingredient you expect in the product is present, you must either see it in the list of ingredients or find that the company has voluntarily written "made with 100 percent real food" on it.
Although in certain cases, like butter cookies, the product needs to contain 100 percent butter to earn the name. Furthermore, if the box says "natural and artificial flavors," we read it as the original flavor source is not present, though, logically, "and" means it is. Why this distinction? The FDA does not say.
Now, while we may or may not sympathize with the plaintiff's complaint that the Hostess donuts contained no carrots, it is clear from the FDA's rules that Hostess fulfilled its obligations to the letter. Perhaps, however, we should insist on stricter rules in the future.
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